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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
99th Sqdn.
Enlistment:
London, Ontario
Death:
June 25, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. K. 12.
Additional information
Son of Joseph and Kate Benson, of Aylmer West, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Donald Good Benson
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Newspaper Clipping
This item appeared in the December 28, 1916 issue of the East Elgin Tribune newspaper (Aylmer, Ontario). (It was scanned from an original copy of the newspaper in the collection of the Aylmer & District Museum.) In 1917, Benson volunteered for the Royal Flying Corps. He was lost on a raid against Offenburg, Germany, on June 25, 1918, while flying as the observer in a DH9 bomber aircraft of 99 Squadron, Royal Air Force. -
Memorial
Aylmer Cenotaph, Talbot Street West, Aylmer, Ontario, on which 2nd Lieutenant Benson is commemorated. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ont. in 2011. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Inscription
Detail of the Aylmer Cenotaph, Talbot Street West, Aylmer, Ontario, showing Benson`s name. -
Letter
This information from the CWGC indicates that the remains of Second Lieutenant Benson were first buried at Lahr, Germany and then moved in 1924 to the Niederzwehren Cemetery, outside Kassel, Germany.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Donald Good Benson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Donald Good Benson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Donald Good Benson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Donald Good Benson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 583 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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